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Abstract
The invention discloses a mammary gland MRI imaging respiration artifact suppression method, which comprises the following steps: arranging at least one mark point on the body surface or the breast of the collector; setting an MRI imaging device to acquire MRI images of a breast of an acquirer at N positions, and acquiring an image sequence P of the breast of the acquirer at each of the N positionsiWhere i =1 … N, image sequence PiIs greater than or equal to one respiratory cycle of the acquirer; in a picture sequence PiOf each frame imageAcquiring the time and the position V of the mark pointij(ii) a In a picture sequence P1To select one frame image D1,D1The position of the mark point at the acquisition time is V1DIn the image sequence PkTo select one frame image DkWhere k =2 … N, image DkThe position of the mark point at the acquisition time is VkD(ii) a Image D1…DNThe formed sequence is an MRI image sequence with minimum breathing artifacts in the MRI imaging of the mammary gland of an acquirer.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of medical MRI images, in particular to a mammary gland MRI imaging respiration artifact suppression method.
Background
In the field of medical MRI imaging, due to the respiratory motion of a human body, respiratory motion artifacts appear on MRI images of the chest and the abdomen, and the consequences that the images are blurred, fat shadows of the chest are overlapped on organs or focus is covered are caused. The breast MRI imaging is a routine item for the examination of breast tumor diseases, the examiner is in a prone position during examination, and the respiratory motion can cause the examiner to generate the displacement of the breast mainly in the vertical direction. Due to the long MRI imaging time and low sensitivity, it is difficult for the acquirer to hold his breath all the way to complete the examination. In the prior art, usually, the MRI image processing is still based on the image processing method flow, and after the technologies of image segmentation, image enhancement, image fusion and the like, researchers research model type algorithms, for example, application number 201911057495.0 discloses a breast cancer MRI segmentation method based on a hierarchical convolutional neural network.
However, these processing methods all rely on post-processing techniques of images, MRI images have high sensitivity to breast cancer, especially dense breast, and the challenge of segmenting breast tumors is that the number of voxels in the tumor region (positive class) is much smaller than the number of voxels in the background (negative class), so in order to form a contrast image, a further enhanced scan is adopted by using a breast nuclear magnetic technology, so that on one hand, the victim dose of a subject is increased, on the other hand, the image processing sample size is increased, the time is greatly prolonged, most importantly, the nuclear magnetic screening specificity of early breast cancer is not obvious, and the method is completely subjective, and at present, there is no 'gold standard' of a breast image, so it is a challenge to avoid and eliminate the occurrence of artifacts in the initial image acquisition.
Respiration triggering techniques are commonly used for MRI imaging, which is triggered by a respiratory or inspiratory signal, so that images of the same respiratory phase are acquired at each respiratory cycle, thereby providing a solution to suppress artifacts caused by respiratory motion. However, the respiratory depth and the respiratory interval of each respiratory cycle of the acquirer are different, and in addition, due to the sensitivity of a respiratory trigger device, the MRI image acquired by triggering of the respiratory signal still has artifacts.
Chinese patent 200780003823.8 discloses an automated system for interventional breast magnetic resonance imaging, a tracking device tracking the tracked positions of the coils through a plurality of active probes of a set probe, and one or more active assemblies of a set in relation to the breast coil assembly. The position of the probe tip relative to the breast coil assembly is determined based on the tracked position to accurately give the position of the spatial movement of the breast.
Chinese patent 200810215256.9 discloses a breast fixing method and device in prone type radiotherapy of human breast, which can observe and record the coordinates of the mark points on the skin of the breast of the collector by imprinting the grid strong coordinate lines on the inner cover, thereby realizing accurate repeated positioning. The designed marking system is generally applied to prone type radiotherapy and diagnosis and treatment of human breasts.
In view of this, the present invention provides a method for suppressing respiratory artifact in breast MRI imaging, which performs motion position navigation using a marker point to suppress artifact caused by respiratory motion, so as to alleviate the problems in the prior art.
Disclosure of Invention
A breast MRI imaging respiratory artifact suppression method, comprising:
step 1, setting at least one marking point of a marking system;
step 2, obtaining an MRI image sequence,
acquiring the position of the mark point by adopting medical navigation tracking equipment at the acquisition time of each frame of image in the image sequence;
and 3, selecting the closest position moment according to the navigation position of the mark point, and forming an MRI image sequence with the minimum breathing artifact by using the images acquired by the MRI imaging equipment.
Further, step 2 comprises setting the MRI imaging device to acquire MRI images of the breast of the person at N positions, acquiring an image sequence P of the breast at each of the N positionsiWhere i =1 … N, the sequence of images PiIs greater than or equal to one respiratory cycle of the acquirer;
in a picture sequence PiThe acquisition time of each frame image in the image acquisition system obtains the position V of the mark pointijWherein i =1 … N, j =1 … M, and M is larger than or equal to the number of images obtained by the MRI imaging device in one respiratory cycle of the acquirer in the image sequence P1To select one frame image D1Said D is1The position of the mark point at the acquisition time is V1D。
Further, step 3 includes, in the image sequence PkTo select one frame image DkWhere k =2 … N, the image DkThe position of the mark point at the acquisition time is VkDSaid V iskDIs a sequence of pictures PkMark point position and V at middle image collecting time1DThe mark point position with the minimum Euclidean distance;
the image D1...DNThe formed sequence is an MRI image sequence with minimum breathing artifacts in the MRI imaging of the mammary gland of an acquirer.
Further, in step 2, the medical navigation tracking device is an image pickup device that uses the same time source as the MRI imaging device, the image pickup device is a camera with a gigabit network interface, the camera acquires an image of the marker system in real time, the image of the at least one marker point is transmitted to a computer through the gigabit network interface, and the vertical movement position detection is performed on each frame of the marker point image in the computer.
Further, the image sequence P1To select one frame image D1The method comprises the following steps:
traverse the image sequence P1Each frame image of (1) is recorded as D1When, VkDAnd V1DVariance of Euclidean distance, and selecting the image corresponding to the minimum variance as D1。
Further, when the number of the mark points is more than 1, the sum of the sum1DThe solving method of the Euclidean distance comprises at least one of the following steps:
selecting one of the mark points to carry out Euclidean distance solution;
and solving the Euclidean distance by adopting the geometric center of the mark point.
Further, still include:
if said V iskDAnd V1DIs not 0, in the image sequence PkTwo frames of images D are selectedk1And Dk2Said D isk1And Dk2For a sequence of pictures PkPosition of middle mark point and V1DThe closest two frame images;
according to said Dk1Is marked with a point position VkD1And V1DAnd said Euclidean distance, and said Dk2Is marked with a point position VkD2And V1DTo said image Dk1And Dk2The pixel position of the image D is interpolated to obtain an image DkTo make the image DkPosition V of mark pointkDAnd V1DHas a Euclidean distance of 0;
if the number of the marking points is more than 1, the image Dk1And Dk2Includes performing rotation and affine operations on the pixel locations.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the technical scheme provided by the invention is that the positions of the mark points are utilized for navigation, when the navigation positions of the selected mark points are the same or similar, the acquired images form an MRI image sequence with the minimum breathing artifact, and the image with the closer navigation position is obtained by utilizing the technology of interpolation and multi-mark point matching, so that the artifact caused by breathing motion is further reduced.
Although the time spent on one-time acquisition is longer than that of acquiring an MRI image by triggering a breathing signal, the subsequent image processing time is far shorter than that of the latter, more MRI images are acquired in one breathing cycle, the missing position is eliminated, and the detail information can be well recovered, so that the method provides help for the leakage detection and the defect filling of mammary gland diagnosis, the subsequent image processing is less, the image effect is good, the problem of solving the peak signal-to-noise ratio does not exist, and the image processing precision is effectively improved.
The invention provides a method for identifying the nipple position change of an acquirer in respiratory motion by using machine vision, the same nipple position of the acquirer is used as an MRI image acquisition point with the same phase of the respiratory motion, and the same-phase MRI image eliminates deviation caused by the respiratory motion, thereby inhibiting respiratory motion artifacts. The machine vision realizes non-contact breathing motion position perception, and in the position identification process, the local features of the breast images are used for identification, so that the rapid position identification is realized.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a breast MRI imaging respiratory artifact suppression method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a breast MRI artifact suppression method based on machine vision according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention.
Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for suppressing respiratory artifact in breast MRI imaging according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 1, the method includes the following three steps.
Step S101: and acquiring an MRI image and a mark point position of the mammary gland of the acquirer. Specifically, at least one marker point is placed on the surface of the acquirer's body or on the breast, or at least one marker point of a marker system is placed by the method disclosed in prior art 200810215256.9; setting an MRI imaging device to acquire MRI images of a breast of an acquirer at N positions, and acquiring an image sequence P of the breast of the acquirer at each of the N positionsiWhere i =1 … N, image sequence PiIs greater than or equal to one respiratory cycle of the acquirer; in a picture sequence PiThe acquisition time of each frame image in the image acquisition system obtains the position V of the mark pointijWherein i =1 … N, j =1 … M, M is greater than or equal to the number of images obtained by the MRI imaging device during one respiratory cycle of the acquirer.
In an alternative embodiment, the tracking device disclosed in chinese patent 200780003823.8 may be used, and the position of the marker point may also be obtained by using a tracking device based on machine vision (see the second embodiment for details). The medical navigation tracking device and the MRI imaging device adopt the same time source, and the MRI imaging device acquires an image at the moment t0Sending a hardware interrupt or a software message to the medical navigation tracking device to obtain the time t0And (4) the positions of the mark points are obtained at the moment of collecting each image.
It should be noted that the number M of images acquired at each of the N positions is not a fixed value, and M only needs to be greater than or equal to the number of images acquired by the MRI imaging device during one respiratory cycle of the acquirer, so that M is a variable value.
Step S102: and selecting images with similar mark point positions. In particular, in the image sequence P1To select one frame image D1,D1The position of the mark point at the acquisition time is V1DIn the image sequence PkTo select one frame image DkWhere k =2 … N, image DkThe position of the mark point at the acquisition time is VkD,VkDIs a sequence of pictures PkMark point position and V at middle image collecting time1DThe mark point position with the minimum Euclidean distance; image D1...DNThe formed sequence is an MRI image sequence with minimum breathing artifacts in the MRI imaging of the mammary gland of an acquirer.
In the image sequence P, it should be noted that2In search for D2The method comprises the following steps: traverse P2Each image in (a) searches for the corresponding image D2。In the same way in the image sequence PkIn search for DkThe method comprises the following steps: traverse PkEach image in (a) searches for the corresponding image Dk。
In a preferred embodiment, in the sequence of pictures P1To select one frame image D1The method comprises the following steps: traversing a sequence of images P1Each frame image in (1), recording each frame image as D1When, VkDAnd V1DVariance of Euclidean distance, and selecting the image corresponding to the minimum variance as D1。
It should be noted that, due to the different acquisition times, different D is selected1Composed image sequence D1...DNThe resulting artifact errors are different. Get VkDAnd V1DThe variance of the euclidean distance is used as a measure of the artifact error, and the calculation formula is as follows. When the variance is minimal, artifacts caused by respiratory motion are minimal for the imaged imagery. Different D1V of1DThe values are different and therefore the calculated values are also different.
In an alternative embodiment, when the number of the mark points is greater than 1, and V1DThe solving method of the Euclidean distance comprises at least one of the following steps: one of the mark points is selected to carry out Euclidean distance solution(ii) a And solving the Euclidean distance by adopting the geometric center of the mark point.
Step S103: and (5) interpolating to obtain images with the same mark point positions. In particular, if VkDAnd V1DHas a Euclidean distance of not 0, and is in the image sequence PkTwo frames of images D are selectedk1And Dk2,Dk1And Dk2For a sequence of pictures PkPosition of middle mark point and V1DThe closest two frame images; according to Dk1Is marked with a point position VkD1And V1DIs of Euclidean distance, and Dk2Is marked with a point position VkD2And V1DOf Euclidean distance, for image Dk1And Dk2The pixel position of the image D is interpolated to obtain an image DkTo make the image DkPosition V of mark pointkDAnd V1DHas a Euclidean distance of 0; if the number of the marking points is more than 1, the image Dk1And Dk2The interpolating of pixel positions of (a) includes rotating and affine computing the pixel positions.
Note that if D is selected, D isk1Or Dk2As DkThen, the result of step S102 is obtained, and in order to further reduce the artifact error caused by respiratory motion, a method of neighbor interpolation is adopted, as shown by Dk1And Dk2According to respective position and V1DBy interpolation of pixel positions to obtain Dk. Because the acquisition time interval between adjacent images is short when MRI is acquired, the method of linear interpolation can be used for DkIs interpolated.
In a particular embodiment, let representation Dk1Middle pixel position, representing Dk2Middle pixel position, representing DkAnd the middle pixel position satisfies an equation according to a linear interpolation formula.
In addition, if the number of marked points is greater than 1, then V1D、VkDIs a set of points, from V1DTo VkDContains rotation and affine relations in addition to the translation of the distance, thus forming D in the interpolationkIncluding not only the translation of the pixel position, but also the pixelRotation of position and affine operation.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a breast MRI artifact suppression method based on machine vision according to a second embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, the method includes the following four steps.
Step S201: detecting the movement position of the nipple of the collector. Specifically, the image pickup equipment is controlled to acquire breast images of the collector in a prone position and in a natural breathing state in real time; and detecting the motion position of the vertical direction of the nipple of the collector in the breast image.
In a specific embodiment, the image capturing device is a camera with a gigabit network interface, and the camera has the capability of capturing visible light images. The camera acquires breast images in real time, the breast images are transmitted to the computer through the gigabit network interface, and the motion position of the nipple of the collector in the vertical direction is detected in the computer for each frame of breast image.
In an optional embodiment, the method for detecting the vertical movement position of the nipple of the collector by the camera device comprises the following steps: setting a gray threshold or a color threshold, and dividing a nipple and an areola area in the breast image; the geometric center of the nipple and the areola area is used as the movement position of the nipple of the collector in the vertical direction.
It should be noted that, around the human breast tissue, the nipple and areola are dark brown and have a significant color difference from the surrounding skin, so that the segmentation can be performed using a gray threshold or a color threshold.
Step S202: a first threshold value in the set of nipple motion positions is chosen. Specifically, recording the movement position of at least one respiratory cycle of the nipple of the collector, wherein the movement position forms a position set; selecting a first threshold value from the position set; when the nipple position of the acquirer is a first threshold value, storing a breast image in an area with the nipple position as a center and the neighborhood width as a region, wherein the stored image is a template image.
In an alternative embodiment, the first threshold is the median or average of the set of locations. It should be noted that the amplitude of the respiratory motion may not coincide every time, and therefore, it is necessary to select a point at the intermediate position as the recognition reference.
It should be noted that generating a template image having a width can reduce the amount of calculation for determining the nipple position. If the comparison of the pixels of the whole image is performed, the amount of calculation is large, for example, the size of the whole image is 1024 × 1024. For example, if the width of the image is =64, the image size is 64 × 64, and the calculation amount is reduced by 256 times, the comparison of the nipple position in the image can be performed in real time.
Step S203: and judging whether the nipple motion position reaches a first threshold value in real time. Specifically, under the natural breathing state of the collector, whether the nipple position of the collector in the breast image reaches a first threshold value is judged in real time.
In one embodiment, a method for determining whether a nipple position of an acquirer in a breast image reaches a first threshold in real time includes: acquiring an image of the breast image in a region with a first threshold as a center and a neighborhood width as a region, wherein the acquired image is an image to be detected; and judging whether the image to be detected is matched with the template image, if so, determining that the nipple position of the collector in the breast image reaches a first threshold value.
In an optional embodiment, the method for determining whether the image to be detected is matched with the template image includes: calculating the pixel difference value of the image to be detected and the template image; calculating the proportion of the number of pixels of which the difference is smaller than a second threshold value; and when the pixel quantity proportion is larger than a third threshold value, matching the image to be detected with the template image.
It should be noted that since the image pickup apparatus has a sampling error, the second threshold value is set because there is an error in sampling the same pixel. And when the pixel difference value is within the range of the second threshold value, the pixels are considered to be the same. In an ideal state, when the image to be detected is matched with the template image, the proportion of the number of pixels is 100%. The third threshold is optionally set to 95% taking into account sampling errors and minor deviations due to uneven expansion or contraction of the breast by respiratory motion.
Step S204: MRI images were acquired at N locations. Specifically, the MRI imaging device is controlled to acquire MRI images R of the mammary gland of the collector at N positions when the position of the nipple of the collector reaches a first threshold valueiWherein i =1 … N; image of a personR1...RNThe formed sequence is an MRI image sequence after the respiratory artifact of the mammary gland MRI imaging of the collector is inhibited.
In a particular embodiment, a computer interfaces the imaging device and the MRI imaging device. It should be noted that the imaging apparatus is an apparatus in the field of visible light imaging, and the MRI imaging apparatus is an imaging apparatus based on nuclear physics, and both of them do not have a direct interface. And the computer controls the MRI imaging device to acquire the MRI image according to the judgment result of the step S203.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above-mentioned embodiments are only specific embodiments of the present invention, which are used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention and not for limiting the same, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, although the present invention is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that: any person skilled in the art can modify or easily conceive the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or equivalent substitutes for some technical features within the technical scope of the present disclosure; such modifications, changes or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present invention, and they should be construed as being included therein. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
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1. A breast MRI imaging respiratory artifact suppression method, comprising:
step 1, setting at least one marking point of a marking system;
step 2, obtaining an MRI image sequence,
acquiring the position of the mark point by adopting medical navigation tracking equipment at the acquisition time of each frame of image in the image sequence;
and 3, selecting the closest position moment according to the navigation position of the mark point, and forming an MRI image sequence with the minimum breathing artifact by using the images acquired by the MRI imaging equipment.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein step 2 comprises setting the MRI imaging device to acquire MRI images of the breast of the person at N positions, acquiring a sequence P of images of the breast at each of the N positionsiWhere i =1 … N, the sequence of images PiIs greater than or equal to one respiratory cycle of the acquirer;
in a picture sequence PiThe acquisition time of each frame image in the image acquisition system obtains the position V of the mark pointijWherein i =1 … N, j =1 … M, and M is larger than or equal to the number of images obtained by the MRI imaging device in one respiratory cycle of the acquirer in the image sequence P1To select one frame image D1Said D is1The position of the mark point at the acquisition time is V1D。
3. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that step 3 comprises, in the sequence of pictures PkTo select one frame image DkWhere k =2 … N, the image DkThe position of the mark point at the acquisition time is VkDSaid V iskDIs a sequence of pictures PkMark point position and V at middle image collecting time1DThe mark point position with the minimum Euclidean distance;
the image D1...DNThe formed sequence is an MRI image sequence with minimum breathing artifacts in the MRI imaging of the mammary gland of an acquirer.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in step 2, the medical navigation tracking device is an image pickup device which uses the same time source as the MRI imaging device, the image pickup device is a camera with a gigabit network interface, the camera acquires the images of the marker system in real time, the image of the at least one marker is transmitted to a computer through the gigabit network interface, and the vertical motion position detection is performed on each frame of the marker image in the computer.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein the image sequence is in image orderColumn P1To select one frame image D1The method comprises the following steps:
traverse the image sequence P1Each frame image of (1) is recorded as D1When, VkDAnd V1DVariance of Euclidean distance, and selecting the image corresponding to the minimum variance as D1。
6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein when the number of the marker points is greater than 1, the sum of1DThe solving method of the Euclidean distance comprises at least one of the following steps:
selecting one of the mark points to carry out Euclidean distance solution;
and solving the Euclidean distance by adopting the geometric center of the mark point.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:
if said V iskDAnd V1DIs not 0, in the image sequence PkTwo frames of images D are selectedk1And Dk2Said D isk1And Dk2For a sequence of pictures PkPosition of middle mark point and V1DThe closest two frame images;
according to said Dk1Is marked with a point position VkD1And V1DAnd said Euclidean distance, and said Dk2Is marked with a point position VkD2And V1DTo said image Dk1And Dk2The pixel position of the image D is interpolated to obtain an image DkTo make the image DkPosition V of mark pointkDAnd V1DHas a Euclidean distance of 0;
if the number of the marking points is more than 1, the image Dk1And Dk2Includes performing rotation and affine operations on the pixel locations.
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